Doctor Who: The Vault: Treasures from the First 50 Years - Marcus Hearn

For fifty years Doctor Who has delighted, puzzled, scared, and obsessed children and science-fiction fans. Celebrating this milestone is a blockbuster anniversary special airing in theaters worldwide, video games, novels, shorts, and this fantastic book. Doctor Who: The Vault (Harper Design, $45) is sure to delight Whovians, BBC aficionados, and lovers of sci fi everywhere. This book boasts scripts, memos and ideas from its show, interviews with companions, several of the Doctors (including Tom Baker, David Tennant, and Matt Smith), and the current show-runner and number-one fan, Steven Moffat. This Tardis blue volume takes you behind the scenes into the journals of River Song, the sonic screwdrivers, the signature costumes, and the BBC programming of 1963 that created this phenomenon.
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$45.00
ISBN: 9780062280633
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Published: Harper - October 29th, 2013

A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras - Jay Sacher

If you are wondering whether you need this, yes, you do. A Compendium of Collective Nouns (Chronicle, $35) is an utterly delightful and visually joyful dictionary that will have you contemplating a murder of crows, an exultation of fireworks, and, woefully, an embarrassment of pandas. The wonders of the English language will never cease, and with the brightly illustrated definitions of some of language’s finest exploits, the designers at London’s Woop Studios have brought us a guide to enjoying its splendor properly. An excellent teaching tool or just a great piece for your home, The Compendium will be a book you and your pride—whether it be friend, familiar, or feline—can treasure.
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By Woop Studios, Jay Sacher (Text by)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781452108230
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Published: Chronicle Books - September 17th, 2013

Tenth of December: Stories - George Saunders

Tenth of December (Random House, $26), the stunning collection of short stories by George Saunders, landed him on the cover of The New York Times Magazine last winter with the story caption: “George Saunders has written the best book you’ll read all year.” Not far off.  When we read the advance copy—well before the Times article appeared—it felt like having emerged from a penetrating, life-altering, and at once disturbing and exotic experience. Few writers today inhabit the interior spaces of their characters as Saunders does in these ten stories, while also conveying so richly and so creatively the hilarity, absurdity, generosity, and depravity of the world we live in.

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$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993806
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Published: Random House - January 8th, 2013

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$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984255
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 7th, 2014

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